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PT. 3 ĀL-E-‘IMRĀN or he wrote well and elegantly and accurately. a means, he freed a slave. means, he dedicated his son for the worship of God and the service of the church or the temple; or he devoted him to that service as long as he should live. ✓means, freed from slavery; emancipated; a child devoted by the parent to the service of the church or the temple; or one divorced from all affairs of the world and dedicated to the service of the temple (Lane, Mufradāt & Jarīr). It was a custom among the Israelites that those who were dedicated to the service of the temple remained unmarried (Gospel of Mary, 5:6; and Bayān under 3:36). (woman) is derived from it (the food) was wholesome. »or i. e. means, a man. or means, a CH. 3 Moses, while he had also a sister named Miriam. Being ignorant of Arabic idiom and Quranic style, Christian writers, who ascribe the authorship of the Quran to the Holy Prophet, think that in his ignorance he confused Mary, mother of Jesus, with Mary or Miriam, the sister of Moses. Thus they pretend to have discovered a serious anachronism in the Quran― an absurd charge, inasmuch as quite a number of passages can be cited to show that the Quran considers Moses and Jesus as two Prophets separated from each other by a long line of Prophets (e. g. 2:88; 5:44-46). These Christian writers are not the first to make this "discovery". The "credit" for it goes to the Christians of Najrān who, as long as 1,350 years ago, raised the same objection and woman; a perfect woman; a wife received a prompt reply. It is on (Lane). (Imran). In the present verse the word is either the abbreviated عمر form of (the family of 'Imrān, father of Moses) just as they use the word "Israel" for "the Children of Israel" (see 2:41), or it refers to 'Imran, the father of Mary. See also 3:34. record that when the Holy Prophet sent Mughīrah to Najrān, a Christian of that place asked him: "Do you not read in the Quran Mary (mother of Jesus,) being mentioned as the sister of Aaron, while you know that Jesus was born a long, long time after Moses?" "I did not know the answer," says Mughirah, "and on my return to Medina I enquired about it of the Holy Prophet who readily answered, 'Why did you not tell them that the Israelites used to name their children after their deceased Prophets and saints?' " (Tirmidhi). In fact, there is actually a tradition to the effect that the husband of Hanna and the father of Mary was named 'Imrān whose respectively the father and brother of father, (i. e. Mary's grandfather) had Commentary: In this verse the mother of Mary whose name was Hanna (Enc. Bib. ) has been spoken of as (woman of 'Imrān), while in 19:29 Mary herself has been addressed as (sister of Aaron). 'Imrān (Amram) and Aaron were 477